The History of Beer with Pete Brown
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Pete Brown used to advertise lager for a living, until he realised that writing books about beer was even more fun, and entailed drinking even more beer. He appears regularly on television as a beer expert, writes on beer for a variety of publications and is the author of Man Walks into a Pub and the award-winning travel book Three Sheets to the Wind. In this fascinating episode, he discusses the extraordinary history of beer and its rise to become one of the most popular drinks in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. I've got such a treat for you today, |
| 0:04.7 | you're not going to believe your earholes. Will you really run one of the most popular episodes of |
| 0:09.9 | Dan Snow's History Hit? There's never been broadcast. It features Pete Brown, who's a beer historian, |
| 0:16.0 | yes? That job actually exists. I've brought you a sexist drone before, but now I'm bringing you |
| 0:23.7 | a story in of beer. Pete Brown has written many wonderful books, he's been at the heart of a campaign |
| 0:30.0 | has seen beer, probably not Lager, probably placed back at the hearts of British |
| 0:37.4 | global drinking culture. He's an activist, he's an author, he's a historian, he's a communicator, |
| 0:44.0 | as you'll hear. It's an absolute treat to be re-riding this podcast from 2015 or 16. I don't |
| 0:50.0 | even know if it's so long ago, I haven't even forgotten what happened. This podcast could be older |
| 0:54.0 | than the Trump presidency. Wow. Anyway, enjoy. If you want to go and listen to other episodes of this |
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| 1:08.3 | to the remarkable story of John Watts, the man who was born eight months after his father was killed, |
| 1:14.4 | 80 years ago in 1940. It's been training here in the UK, it's been lots of news shows. Thank you |
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| 1:35.0 | meantime, everybody, enjoy Pete Brown. Pete, I am so excited. We have got beer that we can drink |
| 1:47.1 | and we got an excuse because it's history. Absolutely. The history of beer is the history of the |
| 1:51.6 | British people. And so over a beer, you can talk about whatever you like. Exactly. Well, let's |
| 1:56.1 | open a beer and talk about that. I see you've got a bottle out there. Do you? Yeah. |
| 2:01.2 | I go everywhere. I can with a bottle out now. I've got my bottle out and my doorky, my front |
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